One of the Yolo County Jail’s minimum-security inmates has likely been reclassified following a brief escape Friday morning.
Yolo County sheriff’s Sgt. Lance Faille said 18-year-old Gabriel Eugene Weston climbed a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire at the Walter J. Leinberger Center minimum-security facility shortly after 6:30 a.m. Weston was caught a short while later at a nearby shopping center.
A correctional officer saw the alleged escape, after which Weston ran westbound on Gibson Road. Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene and set up a perimeter.
About 20 minutes later, authorities got a 911 call reporting a sighting of the escapee at the Gibson Plaza shopping center, Faille said. Officers found Weston hiding near some Dumpsters in the center and returned him to the jail.
Weston now faces escape charges in addition to the original counts filed against him since his arrest Tuesday in Davis on suspicion of possessing a stolen vehicle, possessing drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license, Faille said.